Shine Project: the manual on propelling innovations in regional healthcare systems in the North Sea Region: how rhe healthcare domain can be innovated from the inside out

This report is one of the main deliverables of the SHINE project. SHINE is an acronym for Shared value creation in the Healthcare economy through INtegrated business modEls. It is an Interreg North Sea Region project (NSR). Within the SHINE project, researchers aim to study and realize regional healthcare economies in the NSR, these include, amongst other countries, Denmark, Belgium, Norway, The Netherlands, the UK and Scotland. In order for the healthcare sector in the NSR to profit from innovative ideas, and to create new opportunities for innovation in these regions, it is essential to learn from existing models and best practices with regard to innovation, across sectors and countries. Therefore, this report aims to be a handbook for regional ecosystems. One of the central issues under investigation in the SHINE project is how we can increase valorization of products and services that stimulate health & healthy living, how different stakeholders involved in the healthcare economy can be supported, and identifying and improving the role of specialized healthcare suppliers is in the process of healthcare innovation. The report consists of five chapters that are the result of extensive literature studies and field work, including case analysis and a breakdown analysis of regional economies. The overall aim of this report is to support innovation in the healthcare economies of the NSR regions. Hereto, the report proposes a pragmatic (non-systematic) exploration of current innovation models and theories that may apply to the healthcare sector in general and to regional healthcare economies or ecosystems (Chapter 2), an in-depth analysis of the current healthcare landscape in three regions in the NSR (West-Flanders, Scotland and South-Holland) (Chapter 3); an inventarisation of exemplary cases of innovations in regional healthcare systems (Chapter 4), an in-depth analysis of essential building blocks for innovation in healthcare systems and recommendations for the application of these building blocks within the 3 selected regions (Chapter 5), and a final conclusion (Chapter 6).